How Long to Read Human Remains

How Long Does it Take to Read Human Remains?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 40 minutes to read Human Remains by Helen Patricia MacDonald

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularlyand legallycarried out on the bodies of murderers, and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the infamous murders committed by Burke and Hare to supply dissection subjects to Dr. Robert Knox, the anatomist. This book tells the scandalous story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before the use of human remains was regulated. Helen MacDonald looks particularly at the activities of British surgeons in nineteenth-century Van Diemens Land, a...

How long is Human Remains?

Human Remains by Helen Patricia MacDonald is 220 pages long, and a total of 55,000 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Human Remains Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours to read Human Remains aloud.

What Reading Level is Human Remains?

Human Remains is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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